who will gain control of these treasures in the future when with you know you because your task is to prove it scientifically that russia's continental shelf goes far beyond its northern shores that ends up deep in the arctic this is the primary task. of russia's presidential envoy to the north pole says the first telegram sent from the news station what to the president and the prime minister that personally tracking all the latest on the north pole thirty eight expedition the one who'll be in charge of sending further updates to the mainland is the head of the station. with over two dozen polar expeditions under his belt the much has supervised the unloading and construction of the station. better to. start with equipping our i was in all the necessary amenities with electricity to go forward and well build a traditional boardroom but this in the end once we do the rest is the comparing

and the youngest member of the expedition is the cook he promises his fellows the menu of his optic restaurant will be rich and diverse. this. is the warm storage of all the products that shouldn't be exposed to frost bridged balls canned food what else can these cookies masteries groceries everything absolutely everything. tricity man sergei he's the oldest one here he says this expedition is his stream come true and his younger mates don't even realize how lucky they are to be part of this adventure. for twenty years i've been trying to get him you won't believe it i've written countless letters to various institutions but they tell me you're a thirty year old railroad worker stay where you're on your to old for us and now i'm fifteen and i'm here. as dusk a spalling these fireworks marked the beginning of the real. mission the russian

plug is hoisted and that means the rest sea ice breaker and its crew will be heading for the mainland leaving the fifteen men face to face with a severe arctic night the russian multipole mission is now officially underway launched into the oxic with traditional maritime music and less traditional fireworks the polar sets off a year of freezing conditions lie ahead with painstaking studies of the arctic to reveal the treasures underneath exhibit the catch of the r.t. from the arctic. coming up for you this hour an r.t. for some new yorkers the big apple has gone wrong. people a lot of people. being homeless as the city hits its highest homelessness rate since the great depression we find out what it takes to get a roof over your head if only for. the first moscow is expected

to get its new mayor next week the majority party in the city parliament united russia says it will support the candidate proposed by president dmitri medvedev fifty two year old. who currently serves as russia's deputy prime minister was born in a siberian village an outsider to moscow he was previously governor of one of russia's oil rich regions and the head of the country's presidential administration he will replace veteran who served as moscow mepham nearly two decades but was fired by present video last month. from the united russia party explains why it is considered the right man for the job. i think it's not a matter of control of politics and money flows it's a matter of. federal importance moscow is the special city and the supposed to be the in the vanguard of modernisation and actually the federal government has the world from plans of how to create a financial center in moscow i think savannah enormous experience hall for work in

the garment he is known as an efficient professional he has managed to create a fact of system within the government staff he was quite successful as a governor of one of the richest regions in russia so he has enough experience to do so and besides i think it's also a matter of personal trust because he's well known by the president and by the prime minister and they trust him as a person and as a professional and that was cut off from the united party. flash floods have raged through russia's president our region killing eleven people while three are still missing a state of emergency has been declared in the worst affected areas where more than twenty villages have been swarmed around fifteen hundred people have been caught in the deluge and so far several hundred have had to be evacuated from their homes the flooding is the result of several days of heavy rain that cause local rivers to burst their banks the downpour also brought about mudslides in the mountains blocking several sections of the north quick asian railroad the rain has stopped for now but forecasters warn there could still be more. national poverty rates

across the u.s. are higher than they've been in almost half a century one in seven americans currently live below the poverty line which for many means living without a house and i started checking the reports now from new york where the problem of homelessness is reaching crisis point. one zero. zero zero this is no lottery for a chance to win some cash these people are petion free waiting to find out if they can win a roof over their heads for the night they're not criminals they're not drunks they're flaw is that they just don't have a whole. these days the chances of getting a bed in new york are slimmer than ever homelessness in the city has skyrocketed by an entire fifty percent last year almost one hundred twenty thousand different new york city men women and children spent at least a night and a city shelter that's a shocking number of the highest number that's ever been recorded keith who became

homeless in this last year says he's fifth on standby to get a bed he considers himself lucky for the man this means at least some hope my number doesn't come up i'm going to be outside in the rain yousif knows exactly what it's like calling a place like this home shelter and bed i put together this project away i go home last week every year most of my nights i just end up you know sleeping on a cardboard box in front of us so posting his experience in a blog you sophist been able to collect thousands of dollars in donations for the homeless the reality is a lot of people most people a lot of people are one paycheck away from being homeless you know i just. you know i'm just trying to make people aware in the packed city like new york homelessness is no novelty in a city where you can buy a coffee drink for almost eight dollars there are dozens of thousands of people who

just don't have that kind of money and to many it's clear that their numbers are bound to keep growing even though the already existing statistics are higher than they have been since the great depression there are more than thirty seven thousand homeless people we have thirty seven thousand people including nearly fifteen thousand children who are homeless each night and new york city near record number of homeless families nearly ten thousand homeless families in an apocalyptic state of economy all of these people are hoping to be sieved. you know. as the cries for help stretch across the country the u.s. government sticks to the official party line that the economy is back on its feet but in reality the state of the economy is staring everyone in the face and looking the other way continues to be the norm this could soon become the real face of

a nation and as the. new york. a series of bomb blasts has rocked the southern afghan city of kandahar killing at least two civilians and wounding several of us as violence continues to plague the country the u.s. is taking measures to clean up its campaign there and american offices to face a court martial after he confessed to killing afghan civilians for sport for all the soldiers face when ickes ations two thousand and ten so already the bloodiest year of the wolf of the afghan people and international forces as the taliban remain strong the u.s. led coalition is taking all the new approach he turns top man in the country general david petraeus says at least one taliban commander has been granted safe passage to the capital kabul he says the the moves aimed at encouraging the militants to start talks on military contributed thinks the general strategy is unlikely to work. due to the new twist so-called double pronged judge tactics of the u.s. military in afghanistan now its u.s.

policy in afghanistan incorporates a new feature in addition to the military pressure applied by the special forces against militants and insurgents in afghanistan now the state department's officially approves reintegration and reconciliation of the opposition leaders and reintegration of barefoot soldiers in so-called afghan society at the same time while the american military is trying to regain the momentum on the battlefield all across afghanistan however the reserve growing indication that these new tactics counterproductive and in a way both vectors political and military are operating at cross purposes the reason that afghanistan and iraq is severely underappreciated and what general petraeus managed to pull off in iraq is unlikely to be replicated

in afghanistan. and that was our military contributor colonel khrushchev well there's plenty more ahead here not including visiting the historic russian city. a city that seeing both staggering wealth and devastating walls over its thousand year history is now recovering after the financial crisis. before that let's have a look at some other world news this hour hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have marched across france and the president nicolas sarkozy's pension reform protests to settle flares filling streets with thick smoke a strike by transport and is in its fifth day as fears grow that airports could run out of fuel in the city of musée rubbish has been collected for four days the pension reform which raises the retirement age from sixty to sixty two is to be

voted on in the senate on wednesday. suspected u.s. drones are killed at least nine people in pakistan the strikes were targeting a tribal area in north waziristan dominated by a militant group blame for attacks on foreign troops in afghanistan the u.s. has recently increased the number of drone strikes in the region on friday a militant attack on an army checkpoint killed five pakistani soldiers elsewhere in the west. most of the rescued miners have returned home to a hero's welcome after spending more than two months trapped underground just two of the thirty three workers remain in hospital for what we described as minor and despite having endured weeks in harsh conditions and said to be healthy. the most lasting damage could be emotional effects and the recovery could be complicated by the intense public interest. well our fashionistas are flocking here to moscow all masters russian fashion week hits its stride events kicked off with

designers from around the world showcasing their latest styles and trends on the capital was a little earlier here on r.t. i spoke to stacey britain's who's got a front row seat. russian fashion week in the british elite under way at the top of most others as models sasha is the latest collection designers for russia from the former soviet union and this is a twenty first time that moscow has most of the beds and it still a big deal for her still excited there in the future crowds here even for me and that's got to play and this is their big deal in exciting time and they're going to have fifty shows showcasing all the big all the live action suits in france so everybody started from the models designers and just visitors. came here to see you collection. trends of the year every year

is right today my friend said to. highlight a fantasy and that maybe you don't find anymore the media because here everything is new so right thing he's going to be very very sort of the future and days are going to be like london and paris so let's talk about the designers that they are well why we're here and there's a wide range of things rather than just the to showcase compartment of this look of supposed to be very hot falling a little bit more with speed and they're denies all that that show off their spring blood spots but one other guy who was excited to be our next to that is now well known in the country race might be a part of this poll it is beneficial. it is publicity it gives p.r.a. games it gives me new contacts new people coming in seeing their collection and.

expressing their interest if there is any and for you to understand also benefit those. we. we don't pay for this event. it is a very big bonus. which is just growing doesn't have much. of that kind of stuff there were. pieces here so that's. not. like that is the. this is wonderful and everybody else that was. under. my breath you. reporting there from central moscow by the way there's plenty more stories features opinion and analysis waiting for you on our website. explore.

right now for you you can find out how. to continue sailing over the internet providers. plus find out the recipe for terminator. which will raise your strength as well as your spirits it's all in the mix. now come with us as we explore the boston varied regions of russia it's time now to get close up. in today's episode we continue our tour of the ancient city of

a. region located five hundred kilometers northwest of moscow the site with its rich historical past attracts thousands of tourists every year these days however the region is being forced to adjust to the harsh economic realities with whole villages struggling to make ends meet you don't have as much. unlike the larger metropolitan areas around the good housing being able to attract the same amount of investment from big businesses over the last few years this big business is essential it brings the jobs that it brings in money for the local authorities as well but because it is just one such large factory which has been built by their old cadre and provides hundreds of jobs for people here but for the rest of the area it's still suffering from the aftermath of the economic crisis. for a hundred years the plywood mill has supplied most people in the town of part of jobs unfortunately it's also been exactly a hundred years since its last major renovation and the new equipment is from the late nineteenth seventy. i think when

the economic crisis struck two years ago the factory couldn't compete and one bankrupt straight away and with it the apart from the. whole families were suddenly they lost their jobs pensioners had to help their children and grandchildren by no food to eat the town was devastated. certainly has an unfinished degree in management it's of no use here instead to support her son she had to get a job with the mail only to lose it. sitting at home without money my relationship with my husband deteriorated and my family fell apart i blame the factory in this town. regional authorities provided a bailout and tax relief and certainly on their return to work without the one thousand six hundred employees only a third remain and the plant is still officially bankrupt the plywood mill up

oftener has been saved but it continues to be on life support it's still not turning a profit in order to survive it needs to modernize and up the way it's emblematic of the region as a whole no good region has a population of less than seven hundred thousand with future deja industrial object and a small consumer market that has to find creative ways to generate wealth the authorities have adopted a three prong strategy firstly tourism and nations law the republic then thought i said they have no good. heritage site that they will feel the duties of the us same as everywhere else in russia we have to bring the infrastructure up to the same level as the attractions themselves. secondly foreign investment. in previous times a difficult relationship with a local administration has prevented a good investment climate from forming now we have swung our doors open.

and finally developing industry just like competitive not just in russia but the brule. first medium sized province to be a breakthrough. so you want to several times cheaper than foreign equivalents of our production mines are the same as our competitors but the staff costs are lower while no pipe dream these ambitious plans have yet to bring substantial cash into the government coffers whether or not good managers to cheat them will determine if the region continues to fund more abundant the private like often or only in the twenty first century either grow never see another good region. when i walk around the capitol with our moscow team that's coming away very soon here in r.t. first though let's have a look at the weekend business updates with kareena. welcome to our weekend business program california's governor arnold schwarzenegger led

a group of billionaires to russia this week in search of innovative business ideas but one of them said russia's rich must take a few risks with their money before foreigners will follow. there's a lot of rich people here who are not that i know of investing in venture capital they built their own companies they got a lot of money foreigners would love to see at least some of that money going into russian venture for private money i think that's a that's an obstacle there's a perception about corruption and difficulty of doing business in an honest way but also markets have to believe that russia is not a huge country it's a nice sized country not growing particularly but you have to be able to believe that russia can exploit that means that the technologies and products developed from those technologies addressed a world market for the for the markets here are probably not large enough to attract by itself american investment in companies here in what sectors of the

economy do you see russia's greatest potential industries that needs to focus on international markets i think instrumentation very fine instrumentation software and then of breakthroughs in the biological sciences can be done here so i'm very encouraged about us nano i'm also encouraged of what they're trying to do and i think the main thing they should try to do over the next ten or years of get it going get it moving and then ironically use a phrase from marx they should wither away. so what do you think russia needs to do to develop this entrepreneurial culture here this entrepreneurial mentality i think the way they can catch up is is to encourage entrepreneurs train them to give them a chance to start companies like let's call cobol might help like ross nano is helping doing and get the government can do things to get things going but the government has got to get an involved just got to get out of the business world and

let the private sector take over even though theoretically believe in very little government activity russia is a case where the government's got to do something and they are doing it right the danger that us natural. it is true. that the government with too much and not doing enough to do too much will discourage the private company and if they do too little in the community for they're doing it about right now. in the russian markets end of the week mixed with the r.t.s. like into the red in the mines extending a quarter of a percent no neko was the biggest gain on the r.t.s. finishing up one a half percent. the most one point three percent lower emerging market stocks attracted cash for the six straight week as investors look for faster growth and they think they'll get from more mature economies pretty strong weak for emerging markets she's also for russia this week bill prices being pretty well

supported and that's been a function of what we could not get as a function of more expectations that the fed is going to be very common it's not a trickle to see when they next meet in november so it's really been a good week for risk assets. russia has performed well. ten deal that's the result of russia's venezuela negotiations this week and more than a hoss closely rely on energy relations reports. leaders gave the deals their blessing in an industry where political will comes along its grasp on will build a liquefied natural gas facility together with patrollers they have been use wella and raw snapped will by the state energy companies have steak and germany's wood or oil for one point six billion dollars perhaps the most anticipated deal and energy ministers join to express support for peace per chase of b.p. assets in venezuela i'll call this project as

a first significant stream project fourteen k.v. be brought and. it will be the first success of the stream abroad russia will also build south american countries first nuclear plant russia has just completed iran's first civilian nuclear facility and has already agreed to help build reactors in china and turkey both russia and venezuela suffer from too much reliance on energy and sheer the desire to diversify most. or treater north is not as big as we would like it to be interesting investment plans and today we were to develop a member of journey energy projects but energy is what binds the countries and more in our instruments i expected from other russian companies this day exploring the region mind you the question of business. that's our weekend business program but you can always find more on our website just go to our.

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it's a very welcome this is all from top stories now fifteen adventure as a piece of ice that's the beginning of a year long russian mission in the north pole explores the arctic is melting natural treasures of. new york new records the number of homeless people america's most populous city reaches its highest point in half a century despite u.s. government claims the economy is back on track and the figures are set to keep growing threatening to surpass those during the great depression. and also.

by side with the world's best showcasing the latest. fashion week. and. from the fascist of the flashy to classics of a bygone era the most revs up the. next here and. a list program will be delving into the subjects of cars from the horse room carriages a piece of the great to soviet largest in the west in the course of today used as a status symbol not just as a trials course it's easy to.